Commercial-scale wind farms totalling 495MW have secured financial support in Italy’s latest auction for onshore projects.
Eighteen projects were successful with prices of between €48.65 a megwatt-hour (MWh) and €66.50/MWh.
Italian state body Gestore dei Servizi Energetici (GSE), which runs the auctions, said 26 onshore wind projects bid into the 500MW round, where a single solar project secured supports for 5MW.
Developers could bid reductions of between 2% and 70% on the auction’s reference price of €70/MWh.
The auction is the first held in the country since 2016, when 800MW of new capacity was granted a €66/MWh tariff.
The size of winning projects ranged from 84.4MW to 14.4MW and, all bar one, are located in southern regions of Capmpania, Basilicata, Sardinia, Sicily, Molise and Puglia.
Italian outfit Aleramo landed sate backing for a 20MW development in the northwestern province of Liguria.
Successful developers now have up to 31 months to bring the projects online to qualify for the financial support.
The auction is the first of seven planned to 2021 which will offer government backing to up to up-to-4.7GW of onshore wind.
The next auction, offering support of up to 500MW, opens at the end of this month.